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“I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened”
― Mark Twain

“But there is one peculiarity which real works of art possess in common. At each fresh reading one notices some change in them, as if the sap of life ran in their leaves, and with skies and plants they had the power to alter their shape and colour from season to season. To write down one’s impressions of Hamlet as one reads it year after year, would be virtually to record one’s own autobiography, for as we know more of life, so Shakespeare comments upon what we know.”
― Virginia Woolf, Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read

“Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in.”
― Alan Ball, American Beauty: The Shooting Script

“Mind is the Master power that molds and makes, And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills, Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills:— He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: Environment is but his looking-glass.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh